Brinkley
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · Last seen for boys in 2013 at #12,136
Given to girls 97.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 90 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,308since 1985
Brinkley over time
Rank among girls' names. Brinkley has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,442 | 74 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,108 | 90 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #2,115 | 90 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #2,534 | 71 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,966 | 58 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,738 | 34 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
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| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
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| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brinkley! It came in at #8,318, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Brinkley is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#656 · 1 in 3,304
- North Carolina#1,350 · 1 in 8,860
- Texas#1,478 · 1 in 10,731
Best ever in a state: #474 in Arkansas, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #656 | 9 | 1 in 3,304 |
| North Carolina | #1,350 | 5 | 1 in 8,860 |
| Texas | #1,478 | 15 | 1 in 10,731 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brinkley
- 217 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #5,238)
- 2,017 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #5,238)
- 2,767 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #5,238)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2013 at #2,108 (90 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,497 girls born in 2013 were named Brinkley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.1% of all girls named Brinkley (629) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #8,318 (1985) | #9,072 |
| 1990s | 108 | #4,583 (1996) | #8,590 |
| 2000s | 380 | #2,966 (2009) | #3,878 |
| 2010s | 629 | #2,108 (2013) | #2,912 |
| 2020s | 178 | #3,221 (2020) | #4,727 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brinkley in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 19,497 of them was named Brinkley, which outranked 89.1% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,096Valencia91
- #2,096Yahaira91
- #2,096Yana91
- #2,108Brinkley90
- #2,108Adamaris90
- #2,108Alonna90
- #2,108Annalyse90
- #2,122Acelynn89
- #2,122Aleeya89
- #2,122Anushka89
Tied with 13 names at #2,108; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 378,316 of them was named Brinkley, which outranked 13.7% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).